For in the eye of nature there are neither heroes nor villains, but merely striving human beings.


“I shall love him always, but let him be free.’ Isn’t that lovely and noble!”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace

“Had there been no Bagration, it would have been necessary to invent him,” said the wit Shinshin, parodying the words of Voltaire.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace

“All we can know is that we know nothing. And that’s the height of human wisdom.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace

“The highest wisdom and truth are like the purest liquid we may wish to imbibe,” he said. “Can I receive that pure liquid into an impure vessel and judge of its purity? Only by the inner purification of myself can I retain in some degree of purity the liquid I receive.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace

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